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Post by Chris W on Nov 30, 2014 12:31:02 GMT -7
I've seen several posts alluding to this topic, but none that address it specifically. Where I live [in south-central Pennsylvania] we have two main climbing seasons; spring and fall. Winters can be wet, snowy and bitterly cold, so most folks either boulder in the winter or go ice climbing. Summers tend to be soul-crushingly hot and humid and the bugs will carry you away if you let them. Because of this, I'm planning my winter season and summer season to both be transitional seasons.
My plan is to design my winter and summer seasons based off the bouldering plan. I can launch a full training phase when my fall and spring seasons come. The idea is that, while I have lots of room for improvement with endurance, I'm assuming that strength and power training will be more beneficial in the long run. My questions and assumptions are:
1) Which training phases are cumulative? The book mentions that strength training is and power endurance isn't, but what about gains in ARC ability (fitness, not skill) or power training?
2) I'm assuming that strength and power will be much harder to improve upon when I'm older. I'm also assuming that you can improve your endurance when you are older; at least much easier than with strength and power.
3) I'm assuming that endurance gains can happen quickly, at least compared to strength and power gains.
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Post by Chris W on Dec 15, 2014 21:26:35 GMT -7
Any constructive thoughts on my questions?
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Post by Jon Frisby on Dec 30, 2014 14:37:24 GMT -7
Fellow NE-erner here - I am doing something pretty similar with a full spring and fall season with shorter summer and winter seasons in which I won't do any PE. If I am REALLY pressed for days, I will do strength on day one, ARC on day 2, rest day 3, and repeat (rather than having a dedicated ARC week or two). This also applies to the power phase. That way, my half seasons can be finished in as little as 8-9 weeks, but can be stretched another 4-5 weeks, so it provides a fair bit of flexibility for scheduling the more important fall and spring seasons. I don't really know which are the most cumulative, but my understanding is that strength and endurance are most cumulative, with power next, and PE last. There's also probably some crossover between strength and power in terms of what is actually being trained, especially when your workouts include warm up ladders and near limit bouldering before starting the hangboard/campus/max bouldering portion of the workouts.
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Post by Chris W on Dec 30, 2014 21:34:06 GMT -7
Thanks Jon. So far, things are going well the way I've outlined them above. I seem to have a LOT of work to do in the strength and power department. I never bothered hangboarding or campusing before I found the Anderson's work this past March. It won't be long now before I start training for my spring season here. Hope your winter training is going well.
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